Words matter. These are the best Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My teammates are part of my family as well.
I’m a shooter and shooters shoot.
If you’re open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn’t matter if you’re good from that spot or not.
I’m good for running. I run every day. That’s me. I like to run.
I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don’t come unless I’m playing bad.
It’d be nice to settle down in a great home instead of just moving around and stuff like that.
That’s part of my game: just running the wing, defending.
I see myself as what I’m worth.
Put on about 10 more pounds, that’d be good for me and the development of my game.
When I was in the second unit, it just took me time to find my rhythm just playing with a lot of new guys. But once I got in the starting lineup, it kind of just opened up a little bit.
No one gets beat by 61 and then come out and plays flat the next game.
Really when I’m on the court, it’s about me playing.
To play the game at this level, I’ve got to continue to get better. I’ve got to stay consistent, still work on my ballhandling and I’ve got to become a great defender.
I can’t let my frustration get the best of me.
I’ve been working hard to get playing time, just for whatever. I’m up for whatever I can earn.
I can focus on just one thing – that’s basketball.
Showing teams I can do more than just shoot the ball, that’s really going to help me out.
That’s what I do – I run the floor, I run the wing. Either get easy layups or transition threes.
I like challenges.
I just got to be ready to knock down shots.
My teammates are incredible. Just to be a part of this organization and this group, it’s amazing with all the history behind the Lakers; I’m just glad to be a part of it.
I’m very confident, in anything that I do.
When I get up, I usually have a missed call from either my sons or my wife. Every day we try to talk on FaceTime, try to talk after practice and stuff like that throughout the day. Try to stay in contact as much as possible.
Like each and every year I got to think that way, anyway. I got to think about the next person trying to come in and take my job, so I got to continue to… work hard and prove myself.
If I can defend, I find that my offense just comes to me.
Going to the rim, you either get fouled or get an easy two.
I love to defend.
If you’ve got a big man who scores the ball, you’ve got to defend, and if you’ve got a shooter, you’ve got to pick and choose who you’re going to defend.
You can learn a lot. You can learn how to win. You can learn how to be coached.
Nine times out of 10 I’d like to bet on myself.
I just wanted my dad to be a part of my life, wanted him to continue to be there.
The first year I kind of struggled to find where my shots was coming from, when to cut, where to be.
Most teams won’t really focus on one player because they’ve got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.
I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.
Ballhandling – I made it a focus in all my workouts – working on my handles coming off screens with it, one or two-dribble pull-ups, making second moves, trying to mix it up and continuing to get better each day.
